What you can take away with you.
Orders of service for our public worship, sample letters for grant applicants, retreat-planning leaflets, our governing documents — and a note on visiting the Trust's working theological library by appointment.
Orders of service.
Printable, two-sided A5 sheets you may use either in our chapel or in your own house. The Compline order is the simplest; the Lauds-and-Vespers booklet is what we use ourselves.
Sung Compline — public order
The simplest service in our diary, as printed each week. Suitable for use at home.
Download PDFThe community office booklet
Our own Daily Office, with the Coverdale Psalter and Benedictine antiphons. Long file.
Download PDFSt Benedict’s Day Mass
Order of service used on 11 July each year for our patronal feast, with chant settings.
Download PDFGuidance leaflets.
"A first retreat at Sarum" — for those who have never been
What to bring, what not to bring, what the silence at breakfast is for. Written by Br. Crispin.
Download PDF"On enquiring about oblation" — the year of the first letter
The shape of the year of enquiry, suggested reading, what to expect of the brothers' replies.
Download PDF"Praying with the Rule at home"
A short booklet for keeping a simple weekly rhythm of Lauds, Vespers and Compline in a household.
Download PDFCloister & Common Bread — application guidance.
No formal forms. A two-page letter on whatever paper you have. The leaflet below has a sample letter (from a fictional applicant in Pershore) and our short list of "what we fund" and "what we do not." The 2026 windows close on 31 January, 30 April, 31 July, and 31 October.
Grant guidance & sample letter (2026)
Eight pages, including our criteria, a worked example, and the postal & email addresses for submission.
Download PDF2024 grants — full list of recipients
The forty-seven grants paid in 2024, with amounts and recipient charities, by quarter.
Download PDFWhat governs us, plainly.
1937 Memorandum & Articles (as amended)
The Trust's founding constitution, with the three amendments of 1950 and 1989 incorporated.
Download PDFSafeguarding policy (2025)
The Trust's policy for the safeguarding of adults at risk, with DBS protocols for Sunday Doors volunteers.
Download PDFEthical investment policy (2024)
Our screened approach to the £3.1m endowment portfolio. No fossil fuel, arms, or gambling exposure.
Download PDFVisit the Trust's library by appointment.
14,800 volumes, mostly twentieth-century theology and liturgy, housed in a quiet panelled room within Sarum College. The library is open to scholars and serious enquirers by appointment four days a week (Tuesday through Friday, 10:00–16:00). There is no charge for use. We do ask that you cite the Trust (and, where appropriate, the Dom Gregory Dix Programme) in any publication that draws on the collection.
To book a visit: write to [email protected] at least two weeks in advance, telling us briefly what you are working on. Br. Crispin will reply with available slots and any special access notes for the rare-books cage.
The Nashdom manuscript archive — community correspondence, liturgical drafts, and the unpublished papers of Dom Gregory Dix — is in the third year of a five-year digitisation partnership with the University of Birmingham; 2,440 pages are now online and freely searchable at nashdom-archive.bham.ac.uk (placeholder).